watch house
A weathered wooden watch house on posts at the end of a stubble field, built by the Observatory in 1960 to measure the Edge and kept since by the farmers of the Margin. There is a veranda, a bench facing the white, a brass telescope on a tripod, and inside, the null book: a ledger with one line for every evening since 1960, and in every line the same word. Two paces beyond the last fence post, where a slack rope hangs between old stakes, the ground simply stops. There is no fall and no wind. The...
Located in The Möbius Academy.